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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Friday, June 29, 1984

9-Down : Snare

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 315 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,652
Across
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Salubrious resorts : SPAS
5
Open-mouthed : AGAPE
10
Pernicious : EVIL
14
Mobile place for chow : CHUCKWAGON
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Short-lived star : NOVA
17
Pronunciation authority : ORTHOEPIST
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Kadiddlehopper : CLEM
19
"___ these truths ... " : WEHOLD
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Alpine dweller : TIROLESE
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Popular piano piece : NOLA
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Hybrid animal : CATALO
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Her name means "maiden" : CORA
25
Comical Albert : FAT
26
Plant organ : PISTIL
30
Ring name : ALI
31
Chocolate drink : COCOA
33
He wrote "The Mysterious Island" : VERNE
34
Dickens's pseudonym : BOZ
35
Skill : ART
36
Mark of the P.G.A. : LYE
38
Fiddler-crab genus : UCA
39
Ten-percenter : AGENT
41
British ___ : ISLES
43
Reveal one's humanity : ERR
44
Lerner's forte : LYRICS
46
Break bread : EAT
47
Anna of films : STEN
48
Moon's Unification, e.g. : CHURCH
50
Word in a Hemingway title : WHOM
51
Photographer of a sort : TINTYPER
54
Dempsey was one : MAULER
56
Brainstorm : IDEA
57
Foreordain : PREDESTINE
59
Knox or Dix : FORT
60
What some workers are on : LATESHIFTS
61
Floating ice : FLOE
62
Winter month in Toledo : ENERO
63
Pewee's pad : NEST
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River craft : SCOW
2
Skull study : PHRENOLOGY
3
One who sanctions an action : AUTHORIZER
4
Ecole in ancient Rome : SCHOLA
5
Dumbfounded, in a way : AWED
6
Wide crack : GAP
7
Restless, musically : AGITATO
8
Place : POSIT
9
Snare : ENTRAP
10
Surround : ENCLOSE
11
Coup in card playing : VOLE
12
Burl : IVES
13
Like some excuses : LAME
15
U.S.S.R. peninsula : KOLA
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Oily fruits : OLIVES
23
Saguaro, opuntia, etc. : CACTI
24
Group of machinators : CABAL
25
Pro : FOR
27
Veristic : TRUETOLIFE
28
Financial windfalls : INCREMENTS
29
Hear : LEARN
31
Like lilting tunes : CATCHY
32
Oft-praised deity : ALLAH
37
Still : YET
40
Wink : NICTATE
42
Hide : SECRETE
45
Flexible : SUPPLE
47
Certain invalid : SHUTIN
49
What A.E.S. did in 1956 : RERAN
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What some stories won't do : WASH
51
Spat : TIFF
52
Man of the hour : IDOL
53
Agrippina's son : NERO
54
Middle: Comb. form : MESO
55
Kind of cure : REST
58
Weber's "___ Freischütz" : DER

Answer summary:
12 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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